Confirmed! Thanks Riki! I removed the CopyStyle and it changed nothing. And like you said, I had long ago removed the ex unit so it was 5, not 5ex. And by the way, I settled on 0.7, not 5, because 5 would have been ridiculous.
Thanks for your help. SteveT On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 00:41:58 -0400 Richard Kimberly Heck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/12/20 12:07 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I think I knew this once, but long since forgot. For the style of > > readability optimal for me, I need paragraphs of Standard paragraph > > style to be both indented and separated, *in the LyX User > > Interface*. I tried doing it in my existing layout file, like this: > > > > Style Standard > > CopyStyle Standard > > ParSep -5ex > > End > > > > Is the preceding correct? It did the right thing in the UI while > > leaving the PDF unchanged. Was the use of CopyStyle necessary or > > even correct? Is there a better way to do it? > > You don't need CopyStyle here. If the style already exists, then it is > modified rather than re-defined. CopyStyle is useful when you want to > mostly mimic some other style. > > ParSep here is just given as a float, and it's treated (I think) as a > multiple of the line height. So try something like "ParSep 2". You > might also want to give ParSkip, which works the same way, but > applies to the distance between Standard paragraphs and ones of other > layout types. ParSep, on the other hand, applies to paragraphs of the > same type. See > Help> Customization, section 5.3.7. > > Riki > > -- SteveT Steve Litt May 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
